Автор этой самой знаменитой и самой классической биографии великого поэта - известный писатель и профессор-литературовед Леонид Петрович Гроссман (1888-1965) - написал ее к 100-летию смерти Пушкина для популярнейшей серии ЖЗЛ, - и многие годы именно этой книгой пользовались школьники и учителя, любители поэзии и истории, все, кому дорог Пушкин.
Leonid Grossman was a Russian Soviet literary critic and writer. Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Born into a family of a doctor. In 1911 he graduated from the law faculty of Novorossiysk University in Odessa, where he began teaching. From 1921 he taught at the Moscow Literary and Art Institute. Bryusov; later he worked as a scientific secretary of the literary section of the State Academy of Arts, in the literary and art department of the State Publishing House, then again taught at various pedagogical institutes in Moscow. In 1948 he was among the scientists who were accused of cosmopolitanism.
For the series "The Life of Remarkable People" he wrote biographies of Pushkin and Dostoevsky.